Eric D. Schabell: May 2026

Friday, May 15, 2026

Mastering Fluent Bit: Beginners Guide for Contributing to our CNCF Project Docs

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit.

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, contributing to the Fluent Bit docs project. This is a follow-up to our previous article on contributing to the Fluent Bit project website, and this time we go a step further by tackling documentation contributions. If we can find something undocumented, clarify something confusing, or fix a gap between what the code does and what the docs say — that is a genuine contribution that the community notices.

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Mastering Fluent Bit: Beginners Guide for Contributing to our CNCF Project Website

This series is a general purpose getting started guide for those of us wanting to learn about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project Fluent Bit.

Each article in this series addresses a single topic by providing insights into what the topic is, why we are interested in exploring that topic, where to get started with the topic, and how to get hands-on with learning about the topic as it relates to the Fluent Bit project.

The idea is that each article can stand on its own, but that they also lead down a path that slowly increases our abilities to implement solutions with Fluent Bit telemetry pipelines.

Let's take a look at the topic of this article, contributing to the Fluent Bit project website. This article will be a hands-on exploration of how to get started contributing blog articles to the Fluent Bit project website, something that is very accessible to newcomers and a great way to become part of the community.

Friday, May 1, 2026

A New Chapter: Joining SUSE as Technical Advocacy Lead

There are moments in your career where the path forward becomes surprisingly clear. After years of building, shipping, and advocating in the open source and cloud native ecosystem, I find myself at one of those moments. 

Today I'm excited to share that I've joined SUSE as Technical Advocacy Lead — and I couldn't be more energized about what lies ahead.

Let me back up a bit, because getting here is a story worth telling.